Yesterday was the summer solstice. The Fur Face Players performed A Midsummer Night's Dream to mark the occasion.
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| k2b's ruh "Though she be but little, she is fierce." |
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Yesterday was the summer solstice. The Fur Face Players performed A Midsummer Night's Dream to mark the occasion. k2b's ruh "...
Friday, June 21, 2024
Friday Morning Open Thread
On June 21,1939, Lou Gehrig of the NY Yankees announced his retirement from baseball.
*Gif from the "luckiest man alive" speech which didn't happen until July 4th.
Thursday, June 20, 2024
Thursday evening open thread
I don't know if I'll be back when this goes up; if not, talk amongst yourselves.
Thursday Morning Open Thread!
Today in 1975 Jaws premiered. I think it's safe to go back in the water, but doesn't hurt to double check.
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Juneteenth Evening OT – Apropos of Nothing in Particular
Congratulations to this year's grads, especially to those who marked their ceremonies with protest. Don't care what the powers that be have to say about it. It's fucking American. I asked my kids to say "Congraduations!" to their classmates as a joke. Talk about protestations! "It's not funny and I'll sound like an idiot," said the older, and younger concurred. They're not wrong.
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| Antioch College, est. 1854, Yellow Springs, OH. Virginia Hamilton attended Antioch before transferring to OSU. She was born in Yellow Springs, and readers familiar with the area surrounding Antioch will recognize the town and school in The House of Dies Drear, even though they're not named in the book. Thomas Small's father teaches in one of the towers where they find one of the mysterious triangles. |
Juneteenth Morning OT
A flag that Martha-Ann (who, she'll have you know, is German. German! she spat, sounding more like a mob moll than Frau Alito, née Bomgardner) won't fly today. But I will drink a toast to friendly neighborhood rabble-rouser Emily Baden, and if she were still neighbors with the Alitos, I would recommend she fly it:
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Tuesday Haiku
Life- a solitary butterfly
Sways uncertainly on slender grass.
Nothing more. But ah! How exquisite.
-Nishiyama Soin
Ikegami Shuho
Monday, June 17, 2024
Monday 3 Women OT – Not the Movie, But Yes, I Do Like the Movie
One Saturday morning (doesn't matter which Saturday, but it was wet and cold and not this past Saturday) whilst warming up the car, a beautiful vintage Bentley pulled up alongside me. The young woman behind the wheel gestured and mouthed "Are you leaving?" with a sorry-to-trouble-you smile. I said I was waiting for my kid but could pull forward, although she had ample space already.
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| Sissy Spacek and Shelley Duvall in 3 Women, Robert Altman, 1977 |
Sunday, June 16, 2024
Sunday evening OT
We're having our first heat wave of the season this week. Putting on my happy face and trying not to be consumed with how much I dislike heatwaves.
Codco Mom and Dad are arriving any moment for dinner. What are you up to BT?
The Gallery
It’s your weekly Photo Gallery! Come on in, take a look at what people have been up to over the past week and share some of your own photos.
They don’t need to be taken with a fancy camera or works of art. Share any SFW photos you’ve taken with even the poorest of potatoes. Of course we love to see that arty stuff too.
Saturday, June 15, 2024
Friday, June 14, 2024
Fur Face Friday
Welcome to Fur Face Friday! Summertime means summer sports. And last week's friends are raring to go.
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| It's Ginaaa's Cosmo in his fitness gear. |
Thursday, June 13, 2024
Thursday Morning Open Thread!
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
2nd Wednesday OT: Dear Sassy Boy
Tried to read the comments to all my OT posts from January–May of this year since I'd initially just dumped them and run off to do something else. I only got through January before I gave up. I have no idea what some of those comments mean. I thought for a second Kay Okay had had a baby and was startled. Congratulations, Kay Okay, on your nephew's birth. That is indeed a very large baby.
Wednesday Morning OT — I Want My Two Dollars
Olde girl will be housesitting the week of July 1 for a neighbor friend who has one cat and two standard poodles. She's had no experience walking and caring for dogs so she'll need some support from me, I guess. I did warn her that the breed is smarter and more athletic than most. Also dogs in general are needier than any of the neurotic boys she's dated. City dogs are downright co-dependent as compared to cats. Cats are their own kind of crazy.
| Random poodle from a dead site, not either of the dogs mentioned here |
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Monday, June 10, 2024
Monday Open Thread : a Mouse Came to Celebrate and Brought No Gift...
... unless you consider toxoplasmosis a gift. Since Polly slept on the porch the night before, I suspected she had brought it through the propped outer door. The fearless house mouse made no effort to hide and that behavior was enough to extinguish Polly's hunting instinct. She gave it a couple desultory swipes but since it refused to act like prey, Polly curled herself inside the cat bed and I scooped the mouse up and tossed it outside.
Sunday, June 9, 2024
Sunday evening 🧭T
It's been very, very windy here this weekend. I spent the last two days learning to sail in what were definitely not beginner conditions. Needless to say, I took a swim in the lake.
Has your weekend been smooth sailing?
Beach Boys wall of sound Sloop John B.
Weavers version, 1950.
The Gallery
It’s your weekly Photo Gallery! Come on in, take a look at what people have been up to over the past week and share some of your own photos.
They don’t need to be taken with a fancy camera or works of art. Share any SFW photos you’ve taken with even the poorest of potatoes. Of course we love to see that arty stuff too.
Saturday, June 8, 2024
Friday, June 7, 2024
Fur Face Friday
Welcome all to your favourite time of the week (it's showtime!), the alliteration that is Fur Face Friday!
In case you missed it last week, click here to check it out...
Friday Morning Open Thread
On this day in 1989, the Toronto Blue Jays hosted the first major league baseball game to be played both indoors and outdoors.
Thursday, June 6, 2024
Thursday evening open thread
There was a confused and scared coyote running up and down my street around lunch time today. Probably trying to get back to the park and the rail lands at the bottom of the street, but at one point, it was heading in the wrong direction to the main drag. When it made it to the bottom of the street, the high school kids blocked the road and harassed it. I think it finally made it though.
Thursday Morning Open Thread
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Wednesday Night ::: Planning the Family Road Trip
When was the last time you went on a road trip with family? Any favorite places that you can recall? Who would you take now? What places would you have liked to have gone? Disneyland? Wally World? TMI? Hot vinyl seats, no safety belts, AM radio buzzing and crackling out when out of range. Hot ashes from dad's cigarettes and the occasional flaming butt flying into my lap. Good times. *Cough* At least I had time to learn all the words to "It's a Heartache" by Bonnie Tyler and Eddie Rabbitt's "I Love a Rainy Night". I may be misremembering, but there seems to have been a lot of Bread and Jim Croce on AM radio back then.
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| And everybody say, "Is he all right?" And everybody say, "What's he like?"And everybody say, "He sure looks funny." That's Reddy Kilowatt, honey! |
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Monday, June 3, 2024
Monday Wittgenstein Follies OT
Last one from Existential Comics dot com, I promise. I'm likely the only one amused anyway. This one made me chuckle sensibly.
Dated a philosophy major once. It was doomed from the get go. She was Analytic and I was Continental. She made me read Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Ludwig's only published work in his lifetime. Just about made me cry. Logical Positivism ugh amirite?
10AM, 6/3: Speaking of tiny people with surprising strength... Simone Biles at 4'8"... wtAf. At 27, most gymnasts have retired and jogged their victory laps almost a decade prior. Dancing with the Stars maybe. Other than her obvious talent, I admire her grit and resilience and her compassion for her teammates. Learned from the article she's married to an NFL cornerback/safety. If they stay together and decide to have a child, they will have a superbaby. Good luck baby-proofing the house.
11AM: Congratulations, Mexico. We'll see about Ms Sheinbaum. She's described as Leftist, since her party is considered such, but she has promised to keep much of Obrador's policies in place so perhaps, perhaps not. At least the US media and powers-that-be seem unthrilled by it, if not hostile. So both Canada and Mexico have elected at least one woman as their leader. Two countries the idiots here disparage on the regular are less anti-woman (and anti-science and antisemitic) than the US. Not surprising at all but still disappointing. I lean further left, but go Kamala '28, if free elections are still a thing.
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